"I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" ."

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Source : Source: www.mtv.com

Hasan Minhaj

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“I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.”
“Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (1980). “The Nature of Managerial Work”, Prentice Hall
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
“Live like thereâ€™s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it”
“I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.”

Source : George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”
“Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature.”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
“Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.”

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